Thanks. Glad it avoided you.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: White on White
>> Thanks, Ken. How did the weather treat you last evening? TWC showed a
> lot
>> of stuff moving through Iowa.
>
> The biggest stuff moved right around us. They triggered the tornado sirens
> for Grinnell even though it was the town to our south that was in the
> path.
>
> The lightning was unbelievable. It was doing the flicker thing. In fact,
> we
> all noted the weird sound outdoors. There was this constant drone of
> rolling
> thunder. Sounded like a big waterfall... or train... Hmm... That was about
> the time the sirens started.
>
> It was a pretty powerful squall-line that moved through. The shearing wind
> delta was probably around 75 mph here at the house. (40 mph from the east,
> rapidly switching to about 35 from the west).
>
> We're pretty geeky in this household when it comes to severe weather and
> had
> it pretty well figured out where and when we were going to get hit.
>
> What really threw things, though, was a wind, temperature and humidity
> shift
> prior to the squall-line arriving. About two radar passes prior to the
> arrival a new cell bloomed up just on the east edge of town. The outflow
> from the squall-line had combined with an already present uplift and
> within
> three radar passes had gone from non-existent to purple. That sucked a lot
> of life out of the squall-line as it hit the spot where this new cell
> popped
> up.
>
> AG
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